Snubbed by his party leader Rahul Gandhi and panned by the BJP for questioning surgical strikes, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh swung into damage control mode on Tuesday and said his questions were to the government and not the armed forces.
"I have held our armed forces in highest esteem. Two of my sisters were married to naval officers.... There is no question of my asking questions to defence officials. My questions are to the Modi government," he said on Twitter, hours after Gandhi r...
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The JharkhandBJPtwo-day Executive Committeemeetingconcludedhere on Tuesday with apledgetorootoutUPAgovernmentfromthestatein the 2024 assembly polls besides winning all 14 parliamentary seats in the Lok Sabha election.
"Fourteen months are left for the Lok Sabha elections and it is the responsibility of all of us to win all the 14 Lok Sabha seats in thestateand give a gift to Prime Minister Narendra Modi,"BJPJharkhand unit President and Rajya Sabha MP Deepak Prakash said while addressing themeetingon Tuesday.
On the inaugural day ofBJPExecutiveMeeting, a political resolution was passed unanimously to make Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India for the third time in 2024.
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Chief MinisterYogiAdityanathon Tuesday said casteism, regionalism and linguism have caused irreparable damage to Uttar Pradesh and now it has to move forward with determination to become the best state in the country.
The chief minister made the remarks after inaugurating along with Governor Anandiben Patel the three-day 'Uttar Pradesh Day' celebrations.
"Today, UP is moving forward with pride and dignity. The lines of division on the basis of caste, region, religion and language have caused irreparable damage to Uttar Pradesh. Ending these anomalies, we have to move forward with determination to make UP stand in the category of the best state,"Adityanathsaid.
He also said that being born in UP is a matter of pride in itself.
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For the 1st time,Rahul Gandhi said he respects Army.Digvijaya Singh walked with you for thousands of kms,couldn't you make him understand?Did he say it for 1st time?Today BJP will settle final account with you as far as your vacillating stand on armed forces concerned: Ravi ShankarPrasad
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah around 4 pm today at the Ministry of Home Affairs in Delhi. Sugar industry, cabinet expansion among other issues expected to be discussed.
AAP leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday accused Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena of issuing prosecution sanction by bypassing the city government.
He said this has led to a situation where those accused of committing serious offences against the State might walk away free.
Sisodia said it is the elected government that issues a prosecution sanction.
Bommai attended the meeting, headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, via videoconferencing
Modi saidUP's progress in last few years has drawn everyone's attention.
Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, this will be the first meeting between the two as last time Sukhu could not meet him due to Covid.
Sukhu on Monday had called on the President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar.
"Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu called on Smt Droupadi Murmu, President of India at New Delhi today. It was a courtesy call. This is his first meeting with the President of India after becoming the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh," said the Chief Minister's office.
Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Monday accused the Narendra Modi government of not fulfilling the promises it had made to people in the run-up to its election.
He said the Congress will make people aware about the government's failures by visiting villages and hamlets.
Referring to the party's 'Hath Se Hath Jodo Abhiyan', the former deputy chief minister of Rajasthan said the campaign would be carried out in about 10 lakh booths.
BJPpresident JP Nadda has said the party will form a three-fourth majority government in Rajasthan in the assembly elections to be held later this year.
Addressing the party's Rajasthan state working committee meeting here on Monday, Nadda said, "BJPis the only national party and all other parties have remained family parties. The Congress has been identified as a family party. Regional parties have also become family parties."
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